THE HISTORY OF DISABILITY IN NON-WESTERN CULTURES (Room 5414)Moderator: Renee McGarry, CUNY Graduate Center
*William T. Gassaway, Columbia University, “Dwarfs, Grotesques, and Other Reconsidered Heroes: Criticism and Diagnosis in the Art of Mesoamerica”
*Meng Wei, New York University, “Bodies of Difference: Disability in the Qing Law”

DISABILITY AESTHETICS: TIME AND SPACE (Room 9206)Moderator: Leon Hilton, New York University
*Amanda Cachia, California College of the Arts, SF, “What Can A Body Do?”
*Jared Berezin, Boston College, “Speak, Do Not Sing: Music as a Confrontation with Time in Nabokov’s Chronophobic World”
*Christopher Eng, CUNY Graduate Center, “Touching Crip Time and Queer Time: Reconfiguring Temporal Interdependence in Stop Kiss”

CHILDREN AND DISABILITY (Room 9205)Moderator: Pamela Cushing, King’s University College
*Rachel Lambert, CUNY Graduate Center, “The Feeling of Being a Certain Kind of Math Learner; Disability, Mathematics, and Seventh Grade Bodies”
*Kylah Torre, CUNY Graduate Center, “Exclusion of Students with Disabilities and the School Choice Movement”
*Elizabeth Scherman, University of Washington, “It’s ‘Penguin’ After All: The Audacity of Inclusivity in Children’s Cinema”